By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
April 12, 2021
| 9:08 p.m.
Three appellate judges upheld the murder convictions of two former Allan Hancock College basketball players for a shooting during a drug-deal-gone wrong in Santa Maria more than six years ago.
The California Court of Appeal Second Appellate District recently issued the opinion in the case against mastermind Lavell Calvin White, now 28, and shooter Ali Abdul Mohammed, now 25, affirming the conviction.
However, one justice dissented on White’s role in the crime.
The pair were charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Terence Richardson, 23, a passenger in a vehicle parked near the intersection of Jones Street and Bradley Road on Dec. 30, 2014.